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I forgot to add that this AA community of the last slave ship survivors in Africatown, Alabama, has absolutely nothing in common historically with the Black Seminoles who are a group of mixed African and Native American descent. They formed from escaped enslaved people and free blacks who allied with the Seminole nation in Spanish Florida starting in the early 1700s, sharing communities, intermarrying, and fighting alongside them in the Seminole Wars.

Also the ppl of Africatown, Alabama, have nothing to do historically with "Black Indians" in Oklahoma often and legally referred to as freedmen, descendants of people of African descent who were enslaved or allied with the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole). They moved to present-day Oklahoma during the forced removals along the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.